-- Greenhouse is a simple text scrolling handler for terminal program. -- The idea is that it can be set a region to do its scrolling and paging -- job and then the user can draw whatever outside it. -- This reduces code duplication for the message viewer -- and flowerbook. local ansikit = require 'ansikit' local terminal = require 'terminal' local Object = require 'nature.object' local Greenhouse = Object:extend() function Greenhouse:new(sink) local size = terminal.size() self.region = size self.start = 1 self.offset = 1 self.sink = sink return self end function Greenhouse:setText(text) self.lines = string.split(text, '\n') end function Greenhouse:draw() self.sink:write(ansikit.getCSI(self.start .. ';1', 'H')) for i = self.offset, self.offset + (self.region.height - self.start) - 1 do self.sink:write(ansikit.getCSI(2, 'K')) self.sink:writeln(self.lines[i]:gsub('\t', ' '):sub(0, self.region.width - 2)) end end function Greenhouse:scroll(direction) if direction == 'down' then self.offset = math.min(self.offset + 1, #self.lines) elseif direction == 'up' then self.offset = math.max(self.offset - 1, 1) end self:draw() end return Greenhouse